You're right. It's just demoralizing that it is happening.with so much ignorance out there. I believe more and more are becoming educated. And I know progressive people and groups are aware and more active than ever before. We beat ALEC and repub efforts to suppress the vote last cycle and we will have to again.

There sure doesn't need to be any pressure to make you use this site. Dude, you have a major case of forum addiction. It's taking over your life. I can't imagine anyone using this site nearly as much as you unless they are paid good money to do so. Do you ever do anything else apart from posting on this site. You're here from morning till night. It's insane! And to think you could actually be doing something worthwhile for Occupy instead of wasting all your time here. It's so sad to see so much energy and devotion go straight down the drain into a cesspool of uselessness.

Apparently you are not all that alert - I have not been here on a regular basis since last Thursday. Save your BS for someone else - like one of your other selves. Talk about a forum site addiction - no wait - seeing as you are likely paid to keep attacking the forum - you are more of a sell-out of humanity.

You had a short break because of health issues in your family. That's true. I do hope your sick family members heal quickly. Being sick is always a tragedy. And I applaud you for supporting those that are sick. I was sick once and I'll say that you remember each and every person that supports you because it means so much.

But, I'm talking about time for yourself. Enjoyable time. Take a walk, meet a girl. Forum addiction is real and affects many Americans. There's no shame in this. Seek some help and you'll feel much better.

I'm already part of a forum addicts program. Anyhow, I'm just trying to help. It's understandable that you can't admit you have a problem to the Internet public, so I don't mind if you keep shutting me down for the show. But, when you're alone, take a moment to read this:

Do you remember when rivers caught on fire before the Clean Water Act passed? The only thing worse than a river on fire would be your drinking water on fire. Yet thanks to fracking, that's exactly what's happened to countless American families.

Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, is a dangerous way of drilling for natural gas -- and if President Obama does not step in by the end of the year, the Department of Energy (DOE) could write the gas industry a blank check for more fracking.

Right now, DOE is studying whether or not we should start exporting fracked LNG. Unfortunately, they are only evaluating the business-side economics of exports, not the environmental and public health effects of fracking.

It is critical that DOE looks at the entire picture, from the effects of a fracking well in Pennsylvania or Colorado to the construction of pipeline to carry LNG to a coastal export facility in Louisiana or Washington State.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr told HuffPost Live host Josh Zepps in an interview Friday that he believes conservative media outlets such as Fox News are damaging the country.

Asked how he thought things have changed in the political landscape, Kennedy pointed to "big money" and "the right wing control of the American media, starting with Fox News" as hurtful to collaboration between differing political interests.

"Twenty-two percent of Americans say their primary news source is Fox News," Kennedy told HuffPost Live. "It's divided our country in a way that we haven't been divided probably since the Civil War, and its empowered large corporations to get certain kinds of politicians and ideologues who are in the United State Congress elected -- the Tea Party ideologues who control the Republican Party."

Kennedy, who is the nephew of John F. Kennedy and Ted Kennedy and attorney specializing in environmental law, also spoke about the hydraulic fracturing -- or fracking -- and the health risks and associated costs the practice represents for the country.

Good Video. Robert is right about Solar not having all the longterm costs to the environment, cost that are seldom calculated in Coal Mining, Coal Energy. Patriotic Energy from Heaven, good phrase. He makes the point well that Fracting polution, Traffic, Damage to Community & Economy makes Alternative Energy a much better choice especially when coal poisons the water & fish. Here is a better link below... John Kerry & better Foreign Policy that looks after human interests at 10 minutes in, He talks more and gets into Big oil money & Koch Money at 11:30 minutes in and 13:30 he cites Big money and Right Wing Media control as having changed our country and brought these money problems, fiscal cliff, going crisis to crisis in Washington, Polarized Congress .....

Was thinking all Energy is regulated as a utility. Not sure who owns the US Nuke Energy Plants. But why doesn't Obama Start a Program to create Solar Energy Plants with 4 phases of developement: first phase is just to annex the land and get perimiter security so that equipment isn't stolen, the next three phases are investment phases spaced apart by at least 5 years so that entering the next phase better technology is purchased ... maybe add a sub-phase in the begining to limit risk by buying smaller quantities of equipment and testing them.

If we are looking at shutting down Coal Energy which has 50% of our production today ... It is a reasonable National R&D Project to set up National Solar and Wind Energy Plants in all States. Obviously the Coal & Oil Industries will not take the initiative due to Risk.

You have good insticts and good background. If we follow the money ....

1) Big Oil doesn't want competition from Alternative Energy ...and likely will force businesses out of business in any way possible.
2) Oil & Mining Corporations are one of the most powerful forces on this earth.
3) US Cartels are run through Washington DC, through the Banks, and compose of Global Investments in Oil, Energy, Mining, Agriculture, Big Pharma, Chemical, Media, Telecommunications, Defense, ... and Universities ...and probably US Department of Education.

Seems like if we try to guess what the Cartels will do next ... we have to look at Resources that are still available to be assigned by government or purchased or secured through Pipelines & Transportation Networks.

I have fun getting attacked by the FLAKESnews aficionado's..........:)

Both local and national.....................:)

A flake is still a flake.

Fracking, on the other hand, is an evil that far too few understand the dangers of and it's not like prices have dropped commensurate to the amount of fracking being done, and now they want to export to keep prices here artificially high................Sick shit on every level.